School of Game Development

The School of Game Development provides students with the array of skills required in this exciting industry. Whether pursuing a career as a game designer, game programmer, 3D modeler, concept artist, or UI/UX designer, you will get hands-on experience creating a professional-quality art and game design or programming portfolio, as well as opportunities to collaborate with other students to produce fun and memorable video games.

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Game Designer

UI/UX Designer

Character Concept Artist

Environment Concept Artist

3D Character Modeler

3D Environment Modeler

As a game designer, you’ll balance gameplay elements and in-game economy to keep games engaging. You will also improve systems, contribute to features, as well as participate in testing to create immersive worlds and evoke emotions.

Job Duties:

Create design-centric level layouts

Create game scripting

Assist various teams to polish gameplay

Job Skills:

Excellent oral and written skills

Understanding of gameplay balancing

Collaborative and positive attitude

As a user interface/user experience designer, you’ll create the interfaces and mechanisms for a user to directly interact with a game. Use your knowledge of game features, design, motion graphics, and user paths to create an immersive experience.

Job Duties:

Produce sketches, flow charts, mind maps, and prototypes

Work with production teams to smoothly hand-off deliverables

Optimize interfaces for efficient delivery of information

Job Skills:

Excellent oral and written skills

Understanding of user methodologies and developing use cases

Strong design and human-computer-interaction sensitivity

Design and create characters for interactive games as a character concept artist. Working with art directors and designers, you’ll imagine the visual look of interactive characters with contextual details to bring them to life.

Job Duties:

Create and concept original character designs

Evolve designs through concept to production

Communicate ideas and thought visually

Job Skills:

Strong knowledge of anatomy

Excellent oral and written skills

Ability to present and critique objectively

As an environment concept artist for games, you’ll combine a playful imagination with a high degree of artistic skill. Concept and flush out all aspects of environmental design, from small props to full culture kits.

Job Duties:

Sculpt and model both high and low polygon characters

Job Skills:

Ability to portray a wide range of styles and moods

Ability to quickly sketch and ideate

Excellent communication skills

Bring characters to life as a 3D character modeler. You’ll build complex character models, organic meshes, and work across teams to rig, light, texture, and animate your creations.

Job Duties:

Model and texture game-ready assets

Build and iterate organic meshes

Work with other teams to maintain a consistent story and vision

Job Skills:

Low and high polygon modeling skills

Strong problem solving skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills

As a 3D environment modeler, you’ll help develop levels, architecture, vehicles, objects, textures and materials for gameplay. Work with other teams to bring the story to life and create immersive worlds for interactive media.

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We encourage you to explore the limits of your creativity and create your own path to creative fulfillment. Many of our classes can be taken without any prior experience or knowledge; all that's required is a desire to learn and explore. If you’d like to take a class that has a prerequisite, please contact an admissions representative. Once you’ve demonstrated equivalent knowledge or completion of a similar course a representative will assist you with registration.